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Databases by subject


General
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ProQuest Research Library Begin: 1971- ; Features full text scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers, covering academic subjects.
Gale / Cengage Databases  
EBSCOhost EBSCOhost Mobile Databases - Mobile Access Help, Take EBSCO with you Everywhere you Go (pdf) and EBSCOhost Mobile on Youtube.
Academic Search Elite: academic titles Contains full text for more than 2,100 journals, with pdf images for most journals.
MasterFILE Premier: general titles Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues etc. It includes more than 500 full text reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags.
Discovering Collection: Gale / Cengage Covers Cultures, Geography, Literature, Sciences, U.S. History and World History.
CQ Researcher Begin: 1991- ; Single-topic in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
eBook Collection (former NetLibrary) Thousands of free, online, current books.
Student Research Center Includes newspapers and magazines, encyclopedias, biographies, news transcripts, country, state and province reports, primary documents, photos, maps and flags.
Missouri Resources: History & Heritage Includes Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage and Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative.
World News Digest (Facts on File) Concise reports on news events worldwide.
GreenFILE Database focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. Many journals available from volume 1 to the present.
LibGuides Community This link accesses over 127,000 subject guides prepared by more than 26,000 librarians at 1,760+ libraries worldwide. See what librarians believe is the best!
Internet Public Library 2 Information you can trust. This website has handpicked subject links reference librarians and their associates recommend.
Searchasaurus for Children Searches three popular primary education databases (Primary Search®, Middle Search® Plus and Book Collection: Nonfiction™).
Kid Search Dictionary, encyclopedia, images and teacher resources: animals, arts and music, geography, health, language arts, news, math, sciences, social studies and sports.
Arts
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The Arts ProQuest Search Art, design, architecture, theatre and television.
Credo Reference Art dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Behavioral Sciences
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Behavioral (Social) Science ProQuest Search Sociology and psychology.
Biology
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Biology ProQuest Search ProQuest Biology Journals provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 415 titles, with more than 360 available in full text beginning in 1992.
Business
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Business ProQuest Search Latest business and financial information for researchers of all levels.
Business and Company Resource Center: Gale / Cengage Accesses information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings and company histories.
Business and Company ASAP: Gale / Cengage It provides access to all the business and management journals, trade journals, newspapers and directories for in-depth research on companies, products, markets, industries, economics and management disciplines. It also provides full-text U.S. and international private and public company directory listings, and full-text PR Newswire releases on those corporations.
Credo Reference Business dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Westlaw Campus Research Campus Research News & Business includes SEC filings, Hoover’s company records, company profiles, trade journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts, national & international newspapers and publications. Its Law search offers searching by Document Citation or Document Title, and includes Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); state, federal and Supreme Court cases; American Jurisprudence, 2nd; American Law Reports; and 800+ law reviews and journals. Helpful Search Tips are provided.
Communication
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The Arts ProQuest Search Theatre, film, television and design.
Behavioral (Social) Sciences ProQuest Search Communications and linguistics.
Newspaper Source EBSCO Full text for more than 40 (U.S.) and international and 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Online Newspapers.com This includes New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
MOREnet: Full-Text Newspapers Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post Dispatch
MOREnet America’s News Magazines Nine news magazines including the daily slate.com.
Westlaw Campus Research For Media Law, Campus Research offers searching by Document Citation or Document Title, and includes Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); state, federal and Supreme Court cases; American Jurisprudence, 2nd; American Law Reports; and 800+ law reviews and journals. The News search tab offers trade journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts, national and international newspapers and publications. Helpful Search Tips are provided.
Criminal Justice
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Criminal Justice ProQuest Search Included in the ProQuest Social Sciences database.
NetSmartz Workshop An interactive, educational safety site from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children (ages 5-17), parents, guardians, educators and law enforcement using age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
Cross-Cultural Studies
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MisLinks Cross-cultural resources directory.
Society for Cross-Cultural Research Cross-cultural links.
Education
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Education Full Text (H. W. Wilson) Indexes education publications, with 97% of the full-text journals peer-reviewed.
Education (Social Sciences) ProQuest Search Extensive coverage of education journals.
ERIC – Education Resource Information Center Indexes journal articles and education-related materials; available links to full text included. Updated twice weekly.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (High School) Begins: 1975- . Contains full text for nearly 500 high school magazines with a reading level indicator (Lexiles), plus 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary documents, over 360 reference books, an image collection of over 592,000 photos, maps and flags and color pdfs.
Middle Search Plus (Middle School) Contains full text for more than 140 middle school magazines with a reading level indicator (Lexiles), plus biographies and historical essays, primary documents, reference books, and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags, as well as The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Primary Search (Elementary School) Contains full text for more than 80 elementary school magazines with a reading level indicator (Lexiles), plus reference books American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and relevant photos, maps and flags.
Kids InfoBits: K-Grade 5 Targets students in kindergarten through grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content.
Professional Development Collection A highly specialized collection of information for educators, librarians and researchers. It includes nearly 520 professional journals covering everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice, plus reports.
Teacher Reference Center EBSCO Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Book Collection Nonfiction: High School A rich research database for school and public libraries. It contains abstracts and full text for more than 2,440 popular nonfiction books. The database includes titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more.
Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition A research database for school and public libraries. It contains abstracts and full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more.
Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary A database for school and public libraries. It contains abstracts and full text for more than 1,290 popular nonfiction books. The database includes titles on animals, weather, holidays, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, civics and more.
Annenberg Media Professional development materials for educators. Free resources include video-on-demand, live streaming video, plus materials for purchase.
Westlaw Campus Research For Education Law, Campus Research offers searching by Document Citation or Document Title, and includes Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); state, federal and Supreme Court cases; American Jurisprudence, 2nd; American Law Reports; and 800+ law reviews and journals. The News search tab offers trade journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts, national and international newspapers and publications. Helpful Search Tips are provided.
Geography
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Credo Reference Geography dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Government and Politics
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Social Sciences ProQuest Search Political science journals.
Military & Government Collection This covers all branches of the military and government, and offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content. It provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals.
History
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History ProQuest Search Civilizations, historical, military, U.S. and world history; periods and events.
Missouri Resources: History & Heritage Missouri State and Local History and Heritage Websites.
Best of History Websites An EdTechTeacher.org resource.
Kinesiology, Athletics, Physical Education
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SPORTDiscus Full text of sports and sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 indexed journals. Of those, 393 are unique to this collection. It begins with 1985.
Language
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Credo Reference Dictionaries and encyclopedias (Languages & Linguistics).
Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionaries Dictionaries by language; linguistic sub-field; language family.
Law
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Westlaw Campus Research Campus Research includes an online research service that provides a comprehensive collection of views, business and law related information for students. Helpful Search Tips are provided.
Credo Reference Law dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Library
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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings.
Literature
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Literature Online (LION) Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals and criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center - LRC Gale / Cengage Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and worldwide.
Literature Resources from Gale Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present. It includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Literature and Language ProQuest Search Covers American, English and world literatures, plus linguistics.
Credo Reference Literature dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Medicine and Health
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PubMed Home Over 21 million citations from biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals and books.
MEDLINE EBSCO Provides medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations.
MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You General health information for laypeople.
National Library of Medicine Databases National Library of Med. Electronic Resources.
Consumer Health Complete EBSCO Medical dictionary, encyclopedias, fact sheets, images, diagrams, videos and alternative sources.
National Library of Medicine Gateway Search Guide to resources from the National Library of Medicine.
Health and Medicine ProQuest Search Covers nursing, allied and public health, pharmacology and medical science.
Credo Reference Medicine and health dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Music
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Grove Music Online Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition; plus the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Provides indexing and abstracts for music journals from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular, and including music business. It has cross-links to Naxos Music Library.
Naxos Music Library: Listening Library It has classical music plus jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. NML provides playing times of individual works or movements, music notes, and opera libretti, plus an interactive entry-level course on all aspects of classical music,& the Story of Classical Music.
Music & Dance: The Arts ProQuest Search Music and dance journals.
Hymnary Comprehensive dictionary of hymns, hymn texts and hymnals, with information on authors and composers, lyrics and scores.
Credo Reference Music dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Nursing
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National Library of Medicine Gateway Search Search using the search term, Nursing, to locate: Bibliographic Resources including full text biomedical books; Consumer Health Resources; and Other Information Resources.
Nursing ProQuest Search Health and Medicine: Nursing.
Nurse Portal A portal for nurses.
Philosophy
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Credo Reference Philosophy dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Psychology and Counseling
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PsycINFO Peer-reviewed abstracts of scholarly journal articles in more than 27 languages, book chapters, books, and dissertations from 1887 to date.
PsycARTICLES Source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
Psychology (Social Science) ProQuest Search Psychology journals.
Credo Reference Psychology dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Religion and Theology
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ATLA Serials Religion Database Database combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in religion with ATLA's online religion and theology journals. Most full text titles are indexed volume 1 to the present.
Christian Periodical Index Access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community. Coverage represents major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.
Religious & Theological Abstracts Begin: 1958- . Provides summaries of articles in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions in many languages. Language used is given at the abstract’s end.
Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature Begins: 1993- . Index of social science and religious publications. Includes official publications of major religious groups or denominations.
Credo Reference Religion and theology dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Science
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Science Reference Center EBSCO Applied-, earth-, life-, physical- and space sciences.
Science & Technology ProQuest Search Agriculture, biology, chemistry, environmental and materials science, computing and engineering.
Credo Reference Science dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Biology ProQuest Search ProQuest Biology Journals provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 415 titles, with more than 360 available in full text beginning in 1992.
Social Work and Sociology
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SocINDEX with Full Text Begin: 1908- . Social work and sociology research database with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus.
Technology
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Science & Technology ProQuest Search Agriculture, biology, chemistry, environmental and materials science, computing and engineering.
Credo Reference Technology dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Tests
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Learning Express Library Online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and more.