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Arts and Humanities

America History and Life - Major index for the study of history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. 

Classical Music Library -An online collection of over 25,000 classical music recordings. More information

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexes publications covering all aspects of communication and mass media.

Contemporary Authors - Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - Critical essays on contemporary authors.

Dictionary of Literary Biography - Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of over 10,000 literary figures.

Grove Art Online

Historical Abstracts - Index of scholar publications covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. 

MLA - Modern Language Association indexes literature, languages, linguistics and folklore publications.

NoveList - Online readers' advisory for adult fiction titles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Oxford Reference books online provide dictionary and encyclopedic information in the following areas:

Oxford English Dictionary - Definitions, history, and pronunciation of words, both present and past. 

Philosopher's Index - Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields, from 1940 to the present.

Religion and Philosophy Collection - Indexes world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. (This database is a subset of Academic Search Premier.)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Tecla Online - Classical Guitar Sheet Music - Much of the content is free to everybody, a login account is required for full access to the site. For further information about obtaining such an account, please contact the subscription administrator.

World History Abstracts including U.S. and Canada - Combined index including Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.

 

Business and Law

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - Indexes publications on every major industry including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many others. More information

Business Source Premier - Indexes 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. More information

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Search directories from the fields of education, business and/or psychology.

Conference Board Research Online - Includes research reports on key business topics, national compensation surveys, the Conference Board periodical Across the Board and additional resources such as analysis of current economic topics, forecasts and PowerPoint presentations of selected research report findings.

EconLit - Indexing for articles in economics journals throughout the world.

EDGAR - Database of filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Find Law - A searchable directory of Internet legal resources

HeinOnline - Comprehensive fulltext collection of legal research material.

Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios - D&B publication, 14 key business ratios for over 800 lines of business

LexisNexis - Full text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

Oxford Reference books online in Economics and Business

Regional Business News - Full text coverage for regional U.S. business publications.

RIA Checkpoint - Provides access to a wide array of primary source materials for accounting and tax law.

Test Locator& Test Review - Information on over 10,000 tests and research instruments. In addition, it provides citations to Mental Measurements Yearbooks and Tests in Print.

Washington State Legislation and Laws - The Revised Code of Washington (RCW), the Washington Administrative Code (WAC), as well as the state legislation session laws (1997-present) and the Washington State Register (1998-present).

 

Education

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Search directories from the fields of education, business and/or psychology.

eLibrary Elementary - Geared to the K-6 audience with over 100 full text sources.

ERIC -Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. More information

K-12 - Simultaneous searching of EBSCO Animals, MAS Ultra. Middle Search Plus and Primary search. All targeted to the K-12 audience.

Mas Ultra - Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications as well as images and reference tools.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Middle Search Plus - Provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research and includes primary source documents and biographies.

NoveList K-8 - Online readers’’s advisory for elementary and middle school students.

Primary Search - Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.

Professional Development - Indexes core journals needed by professional educators.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

Test Locator& Test Review - Information on over 10,000 tests and research instruments. In addition, it provides citations to Mental Measurements Yearbooks and Tests in Print.

 

Engineering and Applied Sciences

ACM Digital Library - Association of Computing Machinery full-text online database. More information

Agricola - Indexes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. More information

Computer Source - Fulltext access to journals in computer science and technology.

Ei Engineering Village includes Compendex Engineering Index - Indexes over 5,000 engineering periodicals, conference proceedings and related materials.

Environmental Index Annual - Foley Center, Periodicals

IEEE - Full-text of IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines published since 1998.

Oxford Reference books online in Computing

Oxford Reference books online in Earth and Environmental sciences

 

General

Academic Search Premier - Academic multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications. More information

Alt-Press Watch - Alternative & independent press magazines, newspapers, and journals. More information

Article First - Journal article citations from over 12,500 serials. More information

Books in Print - In-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audios and videos. More information

Catalog of U.S.Government Publications(CGP) - Index to print and electronic publications created by agencies of the U.S. Government. More information

Choice Reviews Online

CultureGrams - Background cultural and sociological information on the countries and cultures of the world.

Dissertation Abstracts Online - Citations and/or abstracts for dissertations dating back to 1861. On the search screen, select appropriate database in the "Jump to Advance Search" box.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Ethnic NewsWatch - Ethnic, minority, and native press newspapers, magazines & journals.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - A comprehensive career research database.

Fuente Academica - Fulltext Spanish language academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Global Road Warrior

GPO Government Publication Index (First Search)

Ingenta - Tables of contents for over 25,000 journals

JSTOR - Fulltext core scholarly journals beginning with v. 1 of each title. More information

LexisNexis - Full text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

MasterFILE Premier - Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

Military & Government Collection - Full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles pertaining to all branches fo the military and government.

NationalNewspaper - Full text New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor and regional newspapers.

NetLibrary E-Books - Electronic book collection

Newspaper Source - Selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers, television and radio transcripts and 200 regional newspapers.

NoveList - Online readers' advisory for adult fiction titles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Oxford Reference Online - provides dictionary and encyclopedic information in many areas

Oxford Reference books online in names and places

ProQuest Direct - An interdisciplinary index of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective(Wilson) - Indexing from 1890-1982 of over 300 popular magazines.

Reference Universe - cumulative index to electronic and print reference works

STAT-USA/Internet - provides business, trade and economic information and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB). A log-in is available at the Reference Desk.

Topic Search - Current events database of topics discussed in today's classrooms.

Ulrich's - The first place to find information about magazines, journals, newspapers, newsletters, 'zines and more.

Washington State Newsstand - Full-text coverage of Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver.

World Cat - OCLC catalog of books and resources held at libraries around the world.

 

Nursing/Medicine

Alt HealthWatch - Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. More information

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) - Indexes current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1937. More information

Clinical Pharmacology - This database is no longer available. The information from this databases is now available through these other databases: Health Source: Consumer Edition, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition 

Cochrane Library - is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews excel in providing information on evidence-based health care.

Ebsco Health Journals - Searches: Alt Healthwatch, Clinical Pharmacology, Health Source – Consumer Edition and Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition.

Health Source-Consumer Edition - Consumer oriented health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Scholarly full text journals focusing on medicine.

ICN Union List of Journals - Health sciences journals held by medical and academic libraries in Eastern Washington

MedicLatina - Full text of more than 140 peer-reviewed Spanish language medical journals from Latin American and Spain.

Medline - Created by the National Library of Medicine, users can search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

Oxford Reference books online in medicine

PubMed - Access to Medline, and additional biomedical information resources.

PubMed Central - a full text subset of the PubMed database. Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted.

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - Registry of Nursing Research, an electronic research resource containing abstracts of over 16,000 studies.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

Stat!Ref  - A searchable collection of full-text healthcare reference resources selected especially for nursing students. Included in the 16 titles are:  5-Minute Clinical Consult ; Davis's Drug Guide For Nurses; and Foundations Of Nursing Research. In addition, STAT!Ref offers access to Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, National Guidance Clearinghouse and MedCalc 3000. Tutorials available for Stat!Ref and MedCalc3000.

 

Religion

ATLA Religion Index - Indexes journals covering Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. More information

Catholic Periodicals and Literature Index - Indexes citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and selected books about the Catholic faith. More information

Francis of Assisi: Early Documents

New Testament Abstracts

Old Testament Abstracts - Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

Religious and Theological Abstracts - This database provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. It list a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions.

 

Sciences

ACS Publications - American Chemical Society full text publications.

Agricola - Indexes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. More information

CRC Handbook - CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Ebsco Animals - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Intended for a K-12 audience.

Environment Complete

Environmental Index Annual - Foley Center, Periodicals

GreenFILE  - a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns

Institute of Physics - Online access to Journal of Physics

MathSciNet - Online access to Mathematical Reviews

Oxford Reference books online provide dictionary and encyclopedic information in the following areas:

PROLA Physical Review Online Archive - Physical Review online.

SciFinder Scholar - Chemical Abstracts online. Logins and client software provided by the Chemistry Dept.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

 

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Search directories from the fields of education, business and/or psychology.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - Full-text database for research in international affairs

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexes publications covering all aspects of communication and mass media.

CQ Weekly - Background information on current issues facing Congress.

CultureGrams - Background cultural and sociological information on the countries and cultures of the world.

LexisNexis - Full text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts 

Mental Measurements Yearbook

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts - Indexes criminal justice journal articles, as well as a broad range of other research materials.

Oxford Reference books online in law

Oxford Reference books online in politics and social sciences

PsycCritiques - APA Review of Books.

PsychiatryOnline - Includes:

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Indexes topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. (This database is a subset of the Academic Search Premier).

PsycInfo - Published by the APA contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. More information

SocINDEX with Full Text 

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.


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