Databases
To access the electronic databases you can click on the hypertext link, or from the library homepage select Articles | Research Guides.
Academic
Search Elite
Full text, indexes and abstracts are provided for 3,237 journals
in the collection. This database offers information in nearly
every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry,
language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences,
ethnic studies and more. Dates Vary.
American
Memory from the Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet
to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving
images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American
experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress
and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people,
places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the
public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Biography
Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on
approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present,
along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of
the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference
books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from
all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel
Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American
Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers
throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies
from other respected publishers, including Macmillan UK, Greenwood,
Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press and Harvard University
Press. More than 5,000 new biographies from American National
Biography licensed from Oxford University Press have just been
added. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference
Bank contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain
full-text) from all of the Wilson Indexing Databases, including
all citations from Biography Index Database after 1984, as well
as thousands of links to book review citations, including review
excerpts and full text reviews from Book Review Digest Plus.
Book
Index with Reviews
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that
provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide
range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc.
Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database,
in all genres. BIR contains over 800,000 full text searchable
reviews from the sources such as: Library Journal, School Library
Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others. 1800-2020
Books
in Print
It contains over 4 million records, and is updated weekly. It
describes in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming fiction and
non-fiction books, audios, and videos from North American publishers
and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. Includes over 680,000
full-text book reviews from these sources: Boston Book Review,
BIOSIS, Booklist, Bookstore Journal, Choice, Doody's Reviews,
ForeWord Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus
Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Quill & Quire,
Reference and Research Book News, SciTech Book News, School Library
Journal, University Press Book News and VOYA. Dates vary.
Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary
of Literary Biography (Gale Literature Resource Center)
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 35,000
critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical,
principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of
Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical
essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary
figures from all eras and genres. Dates vary.
CQ
Researcher
Explores a single current issue in the news in depth each week.
Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health,
education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced
each year including four expanded reports. 1991-present
Humanities
Full Text
A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language
periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical
coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and
numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. 1995-present.
LexisNexis
Academic Universe
LexisNexis Academic provides full text news, business, medical
and legal information. Access is available to over 5,600 publications.
Includes most of the world's major English-language newspapers,
(not the Chicago Tribune, however) such as The New York Times
since June 1, 1980, and the Chronicle of Higher Education since
September 1997. It also includes many non-English language newspaper
titles, as well as journals and magazines such as The American
Prospect, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, New
Scientist, The New Yorker (beginning with 2000), Newsweek, Publishers
Weekly, and Washington Quarterly. Also included are: U.S. news
services, radio and television transcripts, federal and state
case law, medical, legislative and industry news, annual reports
from SEC and many other sources. Newspapers are updated several
times daily, and wire services hourly. Dates vary.
MagillOnLiterature
Plus
MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, combines all
the quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors
in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. This database
is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual
works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000
images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature
Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot
summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting
discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short
fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers.
The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500
most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author's
principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition,
395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details
about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.
This database includes: Masterplots (12 volumes), Masterplots
II (61 volumes), Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes), Cyclopedia
of Literary Characters (5 volumes), Magill's Literary Annual
1990-2004 (28 volumes), Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and
Fantasy Literature (4 volumes) and Magill Book Reviews. In addition,
this database also includes Critical Surveys (53 volumes), Magill's
Choice: Notable Poets (3 volumes), Magill's Choice: Shakespeare
(1 volume), Magill's Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective
Fiction (2 volumes) and World Philosophers and Their Works (3
volumes). Dates vary.
Magill'sOnAuthors
Information on over 1,500 notable authors. Dates vary.
Magill's
Literature Online
The definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical
analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in
the history of literature. This database, which is compiled by
Salem Press, contains all of Masterplots and Masterplots II,
Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters,
and Magill's Literary Annual. Dates vary.
MLA
International Bibliography
Bibliographic references (with some full text links) to scholarly
works, literature, linguistics and folklore in English, French,
German, Italian and other languages on the topics of literature,
literary theory and criticism, genres, linguistics and folklore.
1963-present.
Novelist
NoveList is an electronic readers' advisory resource that assists
fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
Opposing
Viewpoints
This database is organized by topic and provides viewpoint articles,
topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites,
and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Use this database
for "position", "for-or-against", "hot-topic",
and/or "debate" style research papers. Researchers
can choose from dozens of controversial issues listed from Abortion
to Global Warming to Youth, or they can enter search terms to
search by subject, keyword, or full-text. Dates vary.
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of people who
shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. The biographies—of
artists, scientists, writers, industrialists, performers, explorers,
criminals, and eccentrics as well as politicians, church leaders,
and soldiers, mariners, doctors, and lawyers—are written by experts
and provide up-to-date scholarship but are also concise and readable.
There are over 50,000 biographical articles in the Oxford DNB,
and 9,294 cross-reference entries. There are no entries for living
persons. 4th century B.C. E. – present
Oxford
English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English,
covering the language from the earliest times to the present
day. Dates vary.
Periodical
Abstracts
Periodical Abstracts indexes more than 1,500 general and academic
journals. It also contains records for transcripts of segments
of more than 80 news and lifestyle-oriented TV and radio programs.
Each record includes a bibliographic citation and a concise abstract.
1987-present
Short
Story Index
It is a detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more
than 4,025 collections. Short Story Index is searchable by subject,
author, date, title, keyword, and source alone or by any combination.
Subjects include narrative technique or device, locale, theme,
and genre for pinpoint accuracy. 1984-present
WilsonSelectPlus
WilsonSelectPlus is a collection of over 750,000 full-text articles
drawn from over 1,600 magazines and journals. Articles extend
from those published in 1994 to the present. The following subjects
are indexed: Accounting, Advertising, Art, Auditing, Banking,
Broadcasting, Computers, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environment,
Finance, Foreign Investment, General Interest, General Science,
Health Care, History, Human Resources, Insurance, International
Trade, International Trends, Investment Analysis, Literature,
Management, Marketing, Planning and Strategy, Public Administration,
Real Estate, Taxation, Telecommunications, and Transportation.
1984-present
General Interest:
LearningExpress
Library
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online
learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series
designed to help learners succeed on the academic or licensing
tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete
answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
You will need to establish your own username and password when
you start using this product. This will allow you to return and
review your practice exams. The following test preparation materials
are available:
• BUSINESS WRITING SUCCESS SKILLS
• GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAMS (GMAT, GRE, LSAT & MCAT)
• JOB & CAREER TEST PREPARATION
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• TEACHING (CBEST, PPST, PRAXIS)
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• TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
• U.S. CITIZENSHIP