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Military and Government Collection via Ebsco
Search military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. MORE DETAILS...
JSTOR
A unique database of the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Not only text, but accompanying charts, graphs, equations, and pictures are reproduced. MORE DETAILS...

Full text: starts from volume 1; excludes latest 3-5 years

America: History and Life
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the U.S. and Canada. Covers Popular Culture, Multicultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Literature, Sociology, etc. MORE DETAILS...


1964+
FirstGov
A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

U.S. Government
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PAIS International via FirstSearch
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International covers a variety of materials in the area of public affairs. MORE DETAILS...

1972+
GPO Monthly Catalog via FirstSearch
Consists of records published by the GPO. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, executive dept reports and more. MORE DETAILS...

1976+
Criminal Justice Abstracts via SilverPlatter
Covers trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. MORE DETAILS...

1968+
additional databases
ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

ACM Portal
Association of Computing Machinery Portal includes: ACM journals, magazines and proceedings. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1985+
Full text: 1991+
Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

Environmental Science and Pollution Management via CSA
Covers key areas of environmental science:toxic hazards, air, marine, and freshwater pollution, etc. MORE DETAILS...

1984+

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

Omni Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb
Covers six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Business. In addition, select full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science. MORE DETAILS...

1994+
Science Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical, mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier. MORE DETAILS...

1995+

SIRs Government Reporter
Documents from the U.S. government. Information on health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry is included. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

SIRS Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

WorldCat via FirstSearch
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 44 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. MORE ABOUT FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES...

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