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Use the following links to find articles from magazines, scholarly journals and newspapers, and information from electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias including biographies and literary criticism:

Periodical Indexes	Articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals

eBooks	Entire book content available in electronic form online

eJournals	Journal content available in electronic form online

Reference Resources	Encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, literary criticism, history, law

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PERIODICAL INDEXES:

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Academic Search Premier	This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
All EBSCO Databases	EBSCO Databases made possible through a VTEA Grant.
Alt Health Watch	This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
America's Newspapers	America's Newspapers provides full text articles for more than 790 U.S. newspapers. This archive provides comprehensive coverage of current events (history in the making) and historical events. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Business Searching Interface	Business Source Premier, is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Source Elite & Regional Business News	Business Source Elite provides full text for 1,130 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications, with information dating back to 1985. Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, and incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. Both databases are updated on a daily basis.
CINAHL	Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature provides indexing for over 1,700 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Full text material includes 60 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials. Also featured are previews of new journal articles before they are available in CINAHL.
CJPI Criminal Justice Periodicals Index	Provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections, administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.
Computer Source	Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
ERIC	ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Health Source - Consumer Edition	This database provides access to nearly 300 consumer health periodicals, nearly 1,100 heath-related pamphlets; 136 health reference books; more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Information provided in this database should not viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition	Search for articles from more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.
Humanities Full Text	Provides citations to articles from English-language magazines and journals, a few in full text. Subjects covered include Archaeology, Area Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary and Social Criticism, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts	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.
MAS Ultra - School	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.
MasterFILE Premier	Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 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 [selected coverage]	MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Military & Government Collection	Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Newspaper Source	Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 25 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
The Press Enterprise	Access full text articles from 1992 - present.
Primary Search	Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Professional Development Collection	Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
ProQuest Newspapers	Access full text newspaper articles from major newspapers.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection	This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Readers Guide Retrospective	Find citations (not the full text) to more then 1,800,000 articles from hundreds of leading U.S. magazines from 1890 to the 1982.
Religion and Philosophy Collection	This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Vocational and Career Collection	Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Westlaw Campus Research - News and Information	Search thousands of full-text sources for current and archived news and business information, including magazines, newspapers and trade journals.

**E-BOOKS**
FORENSICnetBASE - Law ENFORCEMENTnetBASE	Search for the latest techniques in forensic analysis, information on expert witnesses, or case studies in the field of criminal justice.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Gale Virtual Reference Library includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
NetLibrary	Access over 2,700 digital full text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and an additional 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.

**E-JOURNALS**
American Journal of Nursing	Features practical, hands-on clinical articles on essential topics, vital information on drugs, trends in nursing, legal advice, and more. Archives date back to 1996.
CQ Researcher	Provides original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more. Archives date back to 1991.
CQ Weekly	Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes, and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
Ecology	Ecological Society of America - Search for full-text articles from the current issues of the journal "Ecology" from the drop-down menu, and enter search terms in the box labeled "Full-Text."
Other Periodicals by Title	Search here to see a list of all the full text magazine, journal, and newspaper titles contained in our online periodical indexes.

REFERENCE RESOURCES:

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AccessScience	Includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, the Dictionary of Science and Technical Terms, plus thousands of enhanced illustrations, science biographies, and selected news stories from Science News.
American Film Scripts Online	Presently contains 265 feature film scripts by 334 writers. Search the database by scenes, characters, or people related to the scripts.
American History Online	Provides the full text of 1,350 primary source documents, a hyperlinked timeline from 1492 to the present, 400 biographies of key historical figures, and a gallery of six hundred images.
American National Biography	Contains over 17,000 original biographies and 2,500 illustrations.
Annals of American History Online	Provides a year-by-year documentary of U.S. history from 1493 to modern time. Amongst the 2,000 primary documents are historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems and editorials. Media in the Annals include 500 pictures, hundreds of video clips and the audio of famous speeches.
Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Books in Print (BIP)	A source of authoritative, unbiased data. More than 300,000 full text reviews, comprehensive subject classifications, links by author, publisher and subject.
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry	An index with more than 400,000 poem citations, 40,000 poems and excerpts with full text, biographies of the world’s best-loved poets, a glossary of terms and definitions, and links to outstanding poetry sites.
Country Watch	A world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 191 countries of the world.
Dictionary of Literary Biography	Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
EBSCO Animals	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. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences	Includes 3,000 original, peer-reviewed articles written by over 5,000 of the world’s leading scientists. Includes extensive tables, and over 6,000 figures, illustrations, and photographs.
FORENSICnetBASE - Law ENFORCEMENTnetBASE	Search for the latest techniques in forensic analysis, information on expert witnesses, or case studies in the field of criminal justice. FORENSNICnet BASE - Law ENFORCEMENTnetBASE made possible through a VTEA Grant.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia	This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Gale Virtual Reference Library includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Grolier Online Dictionaries	Access to multiple dictionaries and thesauri including The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Student Dictionary, Children's Dictionary, Spanish/English translation dictionaries, Roget's II The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Children's Thesaurus.
Grolier Online Atlas	Navigate through an interactive, educational atlas to reach articles and photos relating to countries, states, cities, and bodies of water. Search for specific locations or browse geopolitical, thematic, and historical maps. Includes longitude and latitude information for all major cities and a distance calculator.
Grolier Online Encyclopedias	Choose from a variety of research tools including two encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, pre-screened web links, more than 100,000 full text periodical articles, dictionaries, thesauri, an interactive atlas, news features, and student and teacher guides.
Grove Art Online	Access information on art including artists, art forms, and styles and cultures.
Grove Music Online	Access information on music including composers, performers, and music concepts.
Hoover's Online	Delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence on public and private companies worldwide.
Magill's Medical Guide	Online version of this up-to-date and easy-to-use medical encyclopedia. An excellent source for student research, the Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. No remote access available.
MagillOnLiterature Plus	Combines the content from MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors to provide editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and extended character profiles covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. Includes over 6,500 biographical essays on more than 3,500 different authors, including up-to-date lists of each author's principal works.
NoodleTools	A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. Use NoodleBib to generate and edit MLA and APA-style lists. Get expert tips on how to cite sources and find information on the web with NoodleBoard. NoodleTools made possible through a VTEA Grant.
OED	Oxford English Dictionary.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Pro & Con Online	Gain access to the archives of Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and International Debates. Expires December 2007.
Washington Information Directory	Use this source to find contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations. The Washington Information Directory provides mailing addresses, phone, and fax numbers and e-mail and web site addresses, along with letter templates, a customized address book, and much more.
Westlaw Campus Research - Law	A legal research tool for undergraduate students. Provides access to the complete laws and statues of the federal government and all 50 states as published in the United States Code Annotated.Contains all federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations. Includes all precedent-setting court decisions of the federal and state courts as presented in the National Reporter System. Provides access to American Law Reports and American Jurisprudence. For access to Summary of California Law (10th edition), California Civil Procedure (4th edition), California Criminal Law (3rd edition), and California Evidence (4th edition), go to The Witkin Library Only one access code (6037814VTQP) is available for this account, please use it responsibly. Use (student) for the client ID. Westlaw Campus Research and the Witkin Library made possible through a VTEA Grant.
World News Digest	Brings together complete content from the Facts on File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.