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| A to Z Maps Online | The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month. |
| Academic One File | The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. |
| Academic Search Premier | A multidisciplinary database that covers virtually every area of academic study. [Citations/Some full text.] |
| Access NewspaperARCHIVE | It contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. |
| Agriculture Collection | With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. |
| America: History and Life | The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. |
| America's Historical Newspapers - Arkansas State Package | Searchable American newspapers enable users to explore America's past |
| American Chemical Society | The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. |
| Annual Reviews | Intelligent Synthesis of the Scientific Literature |
| Arkansas Historical Quarterly | This Cumulative Index to the Arkansas Historical Quarterly covers volumes 1 - 59, 1942 - 2000. |
| Art Abstracts | Art Abstracts, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexing spans from 1984 to the present. |
| Art Index Retrospective - Wilson Web | Allows users to search 55 years of art journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Art Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists’ interviews and other commentary, and much more. |
| Astrophysics Data System (ADS) | The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through highly customizable query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed or searched via our full-text search interface. |
| "B" DATABASES |
| Biography & Genealogy Master Index | Comprehensive biographical index to nearly 12 million biographies covering contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. [Citations only.] |
| Biological Abstracts | Complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. [Citations with abstract. Some linked full text.] |
| BooksInPrint | (1 simultaneous user) Index to book, audio, and video reviews [Citations/Some full text] |
| Britannica Online | Start with the encyclopedia. Move on to current magazines, recommended Websites, an atlas, the classics, biographies, news, and more. |
| Business and Company ASAP | Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images. |
| Business Economics and Theory | With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research. |
| Business Source Premier | It provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals dating back to 1985. Updated daily. [Citations/Some full text.] |
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| - Provides detailed company profiles and full text PDF Datamonitor Reports for the world's 10,000 largest companies. |
| - Focusing on business and economics, this also includes geographical, political, corporate, & environmental information |
| - A resource of information on key vertical markets. It identifies market size, competitive landscape and provides forecast data of market performance. |
| - Market studies in banking, business, electronics, energy, high tech, manufacturing and phamaceutical sciences. |
| - A framework for analyzing an industry and manufacturing firm's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. |
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| "C" DATABASES |
| Cabell Publishing, Inc. | Since Cabell Publishing, Inc. was founded in 1978, our goal has been to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. Each Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. |
| Choice Reviews Online | CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. |
| CINAHL with fulltext | CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981. |
| Communications and Mass Media Collection | From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more. |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete | Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields. [Citations/Some full text.] |
| Computer Database | Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. |
| Contemporary Authors (CA) | Presents complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism Online | Offers an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors, using several powerful search options and an integrated index that extends to every print volume in this acclaimed series. |
| Country Watch | Provides comprehensive, up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world. |
| C Q Researcher | Great research on today's issues... |
| Credo Reference | A leading reference provider for libraries and information centers. Credo Reference partners with the world's leading publishing brands to produce value-added reference services. |
| Criminal Justice Collection | Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals. |
| "D" DATABASES |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | provides over 9,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. |
| "E" DATABASES |
| Ebrary | A growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas. |
| EBSCO Animals | Provides 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. |
| EBSCOhost | Provides the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end-users. |
| Environmental Studies and Policy Collection | Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
| ERIC | An index to journals and resources in education; ERIC documents are full text from 1993 to present. |
| "F" DATABASES |
| Find Articles | More than 10 million full text articles for free. |
| Fine Arts and Music Collection | With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
| First Search | Provides access to over 30 databases in 14 topical areas. Simultaneous index search is accessible to HSU faculty and students both on and off campus with a valid HSU account. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| "G" DATABASES |
| GALE Databases | A world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Choose one of the many databases to find full-text articles. |
| Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection | Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. |
| General Business File ASAP | Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. |
| Global Road Warrior | Global Road Warrior fosters international commerce and understanding by serving as a practical and comprehensive reference tool. It offers travel and cultural information, such as ethnic groups, religions, demographics, travel essentials, and business practices, among other facts.
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| "H" DATABASES |
| Harvard University Library Open Collections Program | OPC provides online access to historical resources from Harvard's libraries, archives and museums. It has 3 open collections: Women Working 1800-1930, Immigration to the United States 1789-1930, and Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Provides 600 full text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines; also features indexing/abstracting for more than 850 journals. |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition | Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. |
| High Wire Press | A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1212 journals and 5,181,884 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,826,776 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. |
| Historical Abstracts | An exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. |
| Home Improvement Collection | Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. |
| Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection | With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. |
| "J" DATABASES |
| JSTOR | Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. |
| "L" DATABASES |
| Learning Express Library | Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you. |
| Legal Collection | Contains full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals. |
| Lexis Nexis Academic Universe | An outstanding service for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media. |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; 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. |
| Literature Resource Center | Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series. |
| "M" DATABASES |
| Making of America | MOA is a joint project of Cornell Unversity and the University of Michigan to provide a digital library of primary sources of American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subject areas covered are education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science and technology. |
| Marquis Who's Who on the Web | Includes 1.3 million notable men and women from all fields of endeavor and from around the world. Also includes American history biographies. |
| MAS Ultra - School Edition | Provides full text for over 500 general reference publications; includes full text pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection. |
| Master FILE Premier | Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications; includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection, as well as full text of children’s magazines such as Highlights for Children, Weekly Reader, and Stone Soup, among others. |
| Medline 1966 to present | Provides basic citations to articles in medical journals. Includes some free full text articles. |
| Middle Search Plus | Provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high 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. Also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. |
| MLA International Bibliography | An index to journal articles, books, and dissertations for the subject areas of literature and communication. Now includes references all the way back to the late 1800s. |
| "N" DATABASES |
| Naxos Music Library | The the world's largest online classical music library. As of September 1, 2007, it offers streaming access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month. |
| Newspaper Source | Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. and international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. |
| New York Times - ProQuest Historical Newspapers | Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. |
| Nursing and Allied Health Collection | All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. |
| "O" DATABASES |
| OregonPDF in Health & Performance | OregonPDF in Health & Performance, a non-profit foundation, cooperates with colleges and universities throughout the world to make available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance. |
| OverDrive | Download Audiobooks to play on your computer or MP3 player or compatible device. If the publisher allows, you may also be able to burn Audiobooks to CD. Audiobooks cannot be downloaded to computers located in the library. |
| "P" DATABASES |
| Philosopher's Index | Philosopher's Index, produced by the Philosopher's Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. |
| 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. |
| Professional Development Collection | Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. |
| ProQuest Research Library Complete | A multidisciplinary database that indexes 2600+ journals, many of which are full text. |
| PsycARTICLES | PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 140,000 articles from over 60 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group. |
| PsycInfo | It indexes and abstracts serial and book literature in psychology and related disciplines published worldwide from 1887 to the present. |
| Psychology Collection | This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time. Your library's users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
| "R" DATABASES |
| Reference USA | The premier database of 13 million businesses and 120 million households. |
| Regional Business News | Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
| Research Starters - Business | Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. |
| Research Starters - Education | Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. |
| Research Starters - Sociology | Contains Abstracts, a Keyword List of words pertinent to the articles, an Overview to explain various topics' relevance to sociology. |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | Contains records in over 100 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently contains nearly 400,000 entries. |
| "S" DATABASES |
| Science Direct | Offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. |
SciFinder Web Edition
- Returning Users | American Chemical Society's SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Register to use this database. (SciFinder Web Edition is not compatible with IE 8. Using Internet Explorer 8 with SciFinder) |
| SocINDEX with Full Text | The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. Also contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers. |
| SPORTDiscus with Full Text | SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 440 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature. |
| State Academies of Science Abstracts | Provides access to a database of forty of the forty-one states that publish a statewide science publication. |
| "T" DATABASES |
| TOPICsearch | Provides social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals. |
| "W" DATABASES |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 | A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. |
| WorldCat | The world's largest network of library content and service. |
