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Art

Architectural Digest Archive (EBSCOhost)

The Architectural Digest Archive is an extensive collection of the famed international design magazine which has enjoyed a longstanding reputation as the definitive source for architects and interior designers as well as for everyday design enthusiasts. Each issue features beautiful photography and information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products. The Architectural Digest Archive will be valuable to both researchers of architecture and interior design and those interested in the history of business, advertising, and popular culture.

Gale Onefile: Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students. 

Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

Oxford Academic (Arts and Humanities) - OPEN ACCESS

This directs to the Oxford Academic database with the focus of Art and Humanities. Must select the "All content I have access to" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

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Business

eBook Business Collection

eBook Business Collection has a variety of business topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship and also focusing on career growth, personal development, communication and networking.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more. 

Gale Business: Insights

Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, statistical data, and comprehensive reports. 

Gale OneFile: Business

Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily. 

Gale Onefile: Economics and Theory

Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more. 

Gale Onefile: Entrepreneurship

Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs. 

Gale Onefile: Insurance and Liability

Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations. 

Gale Onefile: Leadership and Management

Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily. 

Global Issues in Context

Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

International Financial Statistics

The International Financial Statistics is one of the Fund's principal statistical datasets and has been available since January 1948. IFS contains country data for most fund members, as well as Anguilla, Aruba, the Central African Economic and Monetary community (CEMAC), Curacao, the currency union of Curacao and Sint Maarten, the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), the euro area, Montserrat, the former Netherlands Antilles, Sint Maarten, the West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU), West Bank and Gaza, and some nonsovereign territorial entities for which statistica re provided internationally on a separate basis. 

MIT Sloan Management Review

 MIT Sloan Management Review leads the discourse among academic researchers, business executives and other influential thought leaders about advances in management practice, particularly those shaped by technology, that are transforming how people lead and innovate. MIT SMR disseminates new management research and innovative ideas so that thoughtful executives can capitalize on the opportunities generated by rapid organizational, technological and societal change.

The Economist

The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

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Communication / Speech & Media

Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media

Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more. 

Gale Onefile: Pop Culture Studies

Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. 

Computer Science / Information Technology

Gale OneFile: Computer Science

Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. 

Gale Onefile: Information Science

Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily. 

Criminal Justice & Law

Criminology & Public Policy - OPEN ACCESS

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Criminology & Public Policy is devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. The journal’s central objective is to strengthen the role of research in the formulation of crime and justice policy through publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles.

Criminology - OPEN ACCESS

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Criminology is devoted to the study of crime and deviant behavior. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice. 

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice

Comprehensive periodical content for researchers  studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more. 

Gale Onefile: LegalTrac

Search index of prestigious and comprehensive legal content. Endorsed by the The American Association of Law Libraries. 

Gale Onefile: Military and Intelligence

Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily. 

Gale Onefile: War and Terrorism

Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. 

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Oxford Academic (Law) - OPEN ACCESS

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This directs to the Oxford Academic database with the focus of Law. Must select the "All content I have access to" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

eBooks

CQ Press Books

Your portal into a world of authoritative, award-winning resources in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs that meet the research needs of the most demanding students and scholars.

eBook Academic Collection

This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.

eBook Business Collection

eBook Business Collection has a variety of business topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship and also focusing on career growth, personal development, communication and networking.

eBook Central

EBook Central, a growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.

eBook Community College Collection

Focused on the academic and trade information needs of community colleges, this multidisciplinary collection contains nearly 60,000 e-books, including thousands of workforce development titles from notable publishers including, Packt Publishing, Emereo and Charles C Thomas Publishers. The collection covers key subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, science, technology and literary criticism.

eBook Education Collection

The eBook Education Collection provides titles ranging from introductory texts on education theory and practice for undergraduates to more complex and detailed works for advanced students and scholars in the Education discipline. Also included are support materials for student teachers and professionals working in K-12 and higher education classrooms, covering topics from curriculum building to student behavior and dynamics.

eBook Engineering Core Collection

This subscription collection contains more than 6,000 e-books covering general engineering topics such as biotechnology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, energy sciences, industrial safety, material science, optics and photonics, project management, robotics and more. 

eBook History Collection

This collection features more than 17,000 world history e-books to meet the content needs of students in their research. Titles encompass a variety of subjects, including medieval history, history of music, history of science, law in history, history of philosophy, art history, history of technology, history of business and economics, history of religion, military history and more. 

eBook Medical Collection

Designed for use in clinical settings, biomedical libraries and academic-medical institutions, this subscription collection features more than 3,600 hand-selected e-books that focus on medical specialties, nursing, allied health and general practice areas.

eBook Nursing Collection

eBook Nursing Collection features more than 600 hand-selected, quality e-books that focus on the needs of nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks and professional growth titles.

eBook Public Library Collection

With more than 45,000 e-books chosen specifically for public libraries, this general reference collection features titles for both adults and juveniles, as well as best-selling and highly-recommended titles from industry leading publishers.

eBook Religion Collection

This unique collection features more than 8,300 e-books from trusted publishers covering a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, religious texts and more. This dynamic compilation of texts explores religious beliefs, faith, cultural systems and world views and provides a key resource to meet the needs of students and scholars in their research.

eBook Subscription Diversity & Ethnic Studies

This subscription collection includes academic eBooks related to diversity, anti-racism, ethnic studies, disability studies, gerontology & age studies, migration studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. The collection utilizes outside resources and scholarship to ensure that the collection remains up to date and aligned with current research.

eBook University Press Collection

This collection contains more than 35,000 multidisciplinary e-books from more than 90 of the best university presses in the world. Covering a variety of subjects such as technology, science, literature and humanities, the collection serves a full range of audiences, offering basic introductory texts to high-level research materials.

Gale eBooks

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research. 

R2Library / Nursing eBooks

The R2 Digital Library is a web based database available from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers, on a web based platform.

Sage eBooks

Thousands of carefully selected titles by world-class authors on hot topics across the social sciences including academic and supplementary titles, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible student reference, and numerous practical professional titles in education. 

Sage Knowledge

Hosting more than 5,300 titles, SAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, as well as business case studies, and streaming video - making this the ultimate social sciences digital library for students, researchers, and faculty.

Science Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Education

eBook Education Collection (EBSCOhost)

The eBook Education Collection provides titles ranging from introductory texts on education theory and practice for undergraduates to more complex and detailed works for advanced students and scholars in the Education discipline. Also included are support materials for student teachers and professionals working in K-12 and higher education classrooms, covering topics from curriculum building to student behavior and dynamics.

ERIC

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Gale Onefile: Educator's Reference Complete

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students. 

Harvard Educational Review - OPEN ACCESS

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The Harvard Educational Review is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about the field's most vital issues. Since its founding in 1930, HER has become one of the most prestigious education journals, with circulation to policymakers, researchers, administrators, and teachers.

Journal of College Student Development - OPEN ACCESS

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Journal of College Student Development (JCSD), the largest and leading source of research about college students and the field of student affairs, publishes scholarly articles and reviews from a wide range of academic fields. Since 1959, scholars in student affairs, higher education, sociology, psychology, social work, nursing, business administration, and health sciences have been finding their voice with JCSDJournal of College Student Development is the official journal of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).

Journal of Research in Childhood Education - OPEN ACCESS

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The Journal of Research in Childhood Education, a publication of the  Association for Childhood Education International, features articles that advance knowledge and theory of the education of children, infancy through early adolescence.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Ethnic, Diversity, & Cultural Studies

African American Studies

This is an interdisciplinary academic collection devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans, covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. Researchers can explore a breadth of experiences ranging from U.S. nation-building in Liberia to Freedom Riders, the Rastafari movement, and FBI surveillance. 

African Studies

Covering a critical period of colonialism (1910-1940), this collection brings together primary source materials that enlighten the study of politics, culture, and history. It provides particular insight into German, Italian, British, Portuguese, and American influences as the world advanced toward World War II.

Archives Unbound

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

Asian Studies

With extensive coverage of Japan, China, and Korea from 1910 to 1950, this collection supports the study of colonialism, politics, nationalism, military actions, government systems, economics, and even geography of Asia during a critical period of engagement with the Western nations.

eBook Subscription Diversity & Ethnic Studies

This subscription collection includes academic eBooks related to diversity, anti-racism, ethnic studies, disability studies, gerontology & age studies, migration studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. The collection utilizes outside resources and scholarship to ensure that the collection remains up to date and aligned with current research.

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues

Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. 

Gale Onefile: Diversity Studies

Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. 

Gale Onefile: Gender Studies

Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. 

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Queer history and the Men’s Movement offer interesting perspectives on the struggle for equality and social justice.  The social, political, and cultural contributions of women throughout history are on display in international women's periodicals dating from 1786 to the Women’s and Civil Rights movements. 

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

From Mafia activities in Cuba to the Mexican Revolution, and from political instability in Latin America to foreign relations in Caribbean states, this collection provides a broad variety of resources for the study of the varied, rich culture and history of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Middle Eastern Studies

Frequently studied and often misunderstood, the Middle East features a varied history and culture for indepth study.  This collection provides a multidisciplinary archive of materials to explore the region's diplomatic initiatives, military actions, politics, economics, and natural resources.

Native American Studies

This collection includes political, religious, legal, medical, commercial, and military perspectives of Native American history. Users are provided a diverse collection of primary source materials dating from 1800 through the late 20th century.

Government Documents

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal Depository Library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information. 

FDLP Basic Collection

Core U.S. Government resources made available at all Federal depository libraries. Every day the U.S. Government issues congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, studies, and more on a variety of topics. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government's information. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is administered by the U.S. Government Publishing Office. 

FDLP LibGuides

There are three groups of guides in FDLP LibGuides- FDLP Information, Hot Topics, and Subject Guides. FDLP Information guides contain resources and guidance for depository libraries. These are intended to simplify your depository operations and help depository libraries provide services to their users. Hot Topics contain collections of guides on specific topics that are of current interest. These can include guides from any of the other groups. Subject Guides contain information about specific topics, including resource lists, search tips, and community guides. Community guides are arranged by topic and contain links to guides created by libraries and agencies outside of GPO. These are housed on the creating institution's websites.

Govinfo

Govinfo is free U.S. Government information for all. Govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.. Govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

USA.GOV

USAGov's mission is to make it easier for everyone to find and understand the government services and information they need—anytime, anywhere, any way they want. Partnering with federal agencies, this site reachs out to people where they are, to connect them with their government.

Graphic Arts & Interior Design

Daedalus - Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Featuring the work of some of the nation's foremost scholars in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explores the frontiers of knowledge and issues of public importance. Recent issues have examined Political Leadership; Ethics, Technology, and War; Russia Beyond Putin; The Prospects and Limits of Deliberative Democracy; the Successful Aging of Societies; and Water and the Future of Food, Health and the Environment.

Gale Onefile: Home Improvement

Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more. 

History & Political Science

eBook History Collection

This collection features more than 17,000 world history e-books to meet the content needs of students in their research. Titles encompass a variety of subjects, including medieval history, history of music, history of science, law in history, history of philosophy, art history, history of technology, history of business and economics, history of religion, military history and more. 

Gale in Context: U.S. History

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Gale in Context: World History

World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Gale Onefile: U.S. History

Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily. 

Gale Onefile: World History

Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field. 

Global Issues in Context

Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Journal of American History - OPEN ACCESS

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The Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history and is the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our country's heritage. Each volume of the quarterly journal contains interpretive essays on all aspects of American history, plus reviews of books, films, movies, television programs, museum exhibits and resource guides. 

Literature

Gale Books and Authors

Answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics. 

Gale Literature: Book Review Index

Quickly access reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape, and electronic media representing a wide range of interests. 

Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors

Find the biographies and bibliographies of thousands of U.S. and international authors. Continuously updated. 

Gale Literature: LitFinder

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more. 

Gale Literature Resource Center

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Mental Health Counseling

a. How to Search Within a Journal

Archives of Mental Health

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental health, Behavioral medicine / sciences, Neuroscience, Medicine. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Assists clinicians, teachers and researchers to incorporate knowledge of all aspects of women’s mental health into current and future clinical care and research.

Best Practices in Mental Health

A, peer-reviewed journal that represents the highest quality scholarship in the field of mental health, providing a interdisciplinary and evidence-based focus for its audience of mental health educators and practitioners. The journal keeps with National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) priority to promote the integration of technology, replicate and improve promising practices, and continue to provide diverse and enlightening perspectives.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

An international platform for rapid and comprehensive scientific communication on child and adolescent mental health across different cultural backgrounds.

European Journal of Mental Health

Provides a professional forum, a meeting place as well as a sounding board for experts on the theory and practice of human services professions.

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health

This journal publishes original research articles, review articles, clinical practice reports, case report, commentaries, editorial, letter to the editor and special features on cutting-edge care of elderly patients.

Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour

This journal covers technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in the field of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychiatric nursing, Psychiatric social work, and all areas of Mental Health.

Journal of Mental Health Counseling

A professional journal covering the field of mental health counseling, from theory to research to practice. Publishes articles on current theory, therapeutic applications, original research, and professionalism. This is the official journal of the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA).

Mental Health Weekly

This premier weekly publication delivers the latest news and research on mental health and behavioral health. It keeps readers up to date on the field, and delivers analysis and implications for practice.

Mental Health Weekly Digest

A professional newsletter reporting on the latest research in mental health. Features information and studies in depression, schizophrenia, paranoia, and other mental conditions. Coverage includes drug development, risk factors, and therapies.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Main Edition

Academic Search Main Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 2,000 journals and periodicals and is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Alexander Street - Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. 

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research ReportsCQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications.

Directory of Open Access Journals - OPEN ACCESS

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. OPEN - DOAJ is a vital part of the global open access infrastructure. GLOBAL – DOAJ is a global community, with team members, ambassadors and volunteers based in 45 countries around the world, speaking 36 languages. TRUSTED – Globally, DOAJ's criteria have become a gold standard for open access publishing.

eBook Academic Collection

This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.

EBSCO Essentials - OPEN ACCESS

Access free and reliable open access (OA) articles: Search EBSCO Essentials to find trusted free research and reference content. Use the advanced search option to create more specific searches and limit to peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

Gale Academic OneFile

Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research. 

Gale eBooks

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research. 

Gale General OneFile

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research. 

Gale In Context: College

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.

Gale Research Complete

Search across Gale Research Complete resources, including periodicals, literature, primary sources, eBooks, business, and more.

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a free collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Most are old publications. 

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Oasis - OPEN ACCESS

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 455,499 records.

OER Commons - OPEN ACCESS

The tens of thousands of open resources on OER Commons are free - and they will be forever - but building communities to support them, developing new collections, and creating infrastructure to grow the open community isn’t. Grassroots donations from people like you can help us transform teaching and learning.

Open Stax - OPEN ACCESS

OpenStax offers textbooks on various subjects, which are peer-reviewed and free. Our mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. We do this by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more.

Open Textbook Library - OPEN ACCESS

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Now offering 1480 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.

Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Oxford Academic - OPEN ACCESS

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Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press's academic research platform, providing access to over 50,000 books and 500 journals.

Project Muse - OPEN ACCES

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Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

Sage Knowledge

Hosting more than 5,300 titles, SAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, as well as business case studies, and streaming video - making this the ultimate social sciences digital library for students, researchers, and faculty.

Taylor & Francis Online - OPEN ACCESS

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You will be directed to thousands of subject articles, based on your keyword search. Must select the "Only show open access" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

Wiley Online Library - OPEN ACCESS

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Wiley Online Library titles cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities, and include many titles ranked at the forefront of their field. 

Newspapers & Magazines

Associated Press Images Collection

The AP Images Collection database captures the greatest events in history and brings them to life with photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text. AP Images Collection is a primary source database from the Associated Press, one of the oldest and largest news organizations in the world.

Ebony Magazine Archive

Ebony is one of the key Afro-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Their editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.

Gale Onefile: News

Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. 

Gale Onefile: Popular Magazines

Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues. 

Historical Newspapers Philadelphia Inquirer

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. 

Coverage: 1860 - 2001

Historical Newspapers Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Coverage: 1786 - 2003

National Geographic Virtual Library

Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.

Pennsylvania Newspapers

You can search through all Pennsylvania Newspapers with one search. There are 302 newspapers available. 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has won six Pulitzer Prizes since 1938. Coverage 1900 - current. 

The Economist

The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

Click here for information on how to search within a journal. 

The New York Times

Provides national and international news, opinion and commentary; published in a national and a New York metropolitan edition. Includes local, and state news, science, sports, arts and entertainment, and business and finance news. Content does not include the New York Times Magazine.

The Week Magazine

The Week brings you all you need to know about everything that matters. More than a news digest – it's an original take on world news as it happens.

Time Magazine Archive

The Time Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Archive

The U. S. News & World Report Magazine Archive (1926-1984) database consists of the influential news magazine U. S. News & World Report (1948-1984) -- plus the predecessor titles: United States Daily (1926-1933), United States News (1933-1948), and World Report (1946-1948). Each title features cover to cover processing, which renders all of the content from the front cover to the back cover fully searchable, including the advertisements.

Nursing

eBook Medical Collection

Designed for use in clinical settings, biomedical libraries and academic-medical institutions, this subscription collection features more than 3,600 hand-selected e-books that focus on medical specialties, nursing, allied health and general practice areas.

eBook Nursing Collection

eBook Nursing Collection features more than 600 hand-selected, quality e-books that focus on the needs of nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks and professional growth titles.

Gale Health and Wellness

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices. 

Gale Onefile: Health and Medicine

Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. 

Gale Onefile: Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL)

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management. 

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine offers a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. Resources are available in a variety of formats: searchable databases, bibliographic citations, full text, archival collections and images.

Oxford Academic (Medical and Health) - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

This directs to the Oxford Academic database with the focus of Medical and Health. Must select the "All content I have access to" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

R2Library

The R2 Digital Library is a web based database available from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers, on a web based platform.

ScienceDirect: Health Sciences - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

Just under 9,000 publications on Health Sciences through the ScienceDirect database. 

Other Vocation and Career Databases

Chilton Library

Get the detailed information you need to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs. Search the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. 

Gale Onefile: Culinary Arts

Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles. 

Gale Onefile: Gardening and Horticulture

Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts. 

Gale Onefile: Hospitality and Tourism

Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries. 

Gale Onefile: Vocations and Careers

Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.

Psychology, Sociology, Behavioral Sciences

Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention

Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention is an international periodical that publishes original articles on suicidology and crisis intervention. Papers presenting basic research as well as practical experience in the field are welcome. Crisis also publishes potentially life-saving information for all those involved in crisis intervention and suicide prevention, making it important reading for clinicians, counselors, hotlines, and crisis intervention centers.

Gale Onefile: Psychology

Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology. 

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Oxford Access (Social Science) - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

This directs to the Oxford Academic database with the focus of Social Sciences. Must select the "All content I have access to" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES™, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.  It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group.  It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

Psychological Reports - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

Psychological Reports (PR) is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal that publishes original and creative contributions to the field of general psychology. The journal carries experimental, theoretical, and speculative articles and comments in all areas of psychology. Preference is given to papers that are deemed to be of interest across specialties of psychology that are written in a way to be read by a wide range of people interested in the field of psychology.

PsycInfo

PsycINFO is the premier abstracting and indexing database covering the behavioral and social sciences from the authority in psychology. It is produced by the American Psychological Association and distributed on the association's APA PsycNET and through third-party vendors. 

Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior keeps professionals abreast of the latest research, theories, and intervention approaches for suicide and life-threatening behaviors. The journal publishes scientific research on suicidal and other life-threatening behaviors, including research from biological, psychological, and sociological approaches.

Reference Resources

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research ReportsCQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference, formerly known as Xrefer, is a digital reference library. Containing a selection from 169 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, Credo Reference contains all the types of reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations.

Gale eBooks

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research. 

Gale In Context: Biography

Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content. 

Gale Onefile: Informe Académico

Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America. 

Gale Onefile: Vocations and Careers

Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career. 

International Codes from ICC

The International Code Council develops construction and public safety codes through a governmental consensus process. State and local governments partner with ICC to adopt the International Codes either as published or with modifications to create a custom code.

Sage Reference

Hundreds of must-have SAGE Reference titles providing students with the perfect place to start their research on key topics in the social and behavioral sciences.

Religious Studies

eBook Religion Collection

This unique collection features more than 8,300 e-books from trusted publishers covering a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, religious texts and more. This dynamic compilation of texts explores religious beliefs, faith, cultural systems and world views and provides a key resource to meet the needs of students and scholars in their research.

Gale Onefile: Religion and Philosophy

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily. 

Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

Science

eBook Engineering Collection

This subscription collection contains more than 6,000 e-books covering general engineering topics such as biotechnology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, energy sciences, industrial safety, material science, optics and photonics, project management, robotics and more. 

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies

Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, and introductions to environmental disasters.

Gale in Context: Science

Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more. 

Gale OneFile: Agriculture

Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields. 

Gale Onefile: Environmental Studies and Policy

Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests. 

Gale Onefile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. 

Gale Onefile: Science

Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.

GreenFile - Ebsco

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Oxford Academic (Science and Mathematics) - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

This directs to the Oxford Academic database with the focus of Science and Mathematics. Must select the "All content I have access to" option to view over 100,000 articles. 

Quarterly Review of Biology - OPEN ACCESS

Must look at the "Open Access Articles" to have access to articles. Click here for information on how to retrieve open access content.

The Quarterly Review of Biology has presented insightful historical, philosophical, and technical treatments of important biological topics since 1926. The QRB publishes outstanding review articles of generous length that are guided by an expansive, inclusive, and often humanistic understanding of biology. Beyond the core biological sciences, the QRB is also an important review journal for scholars in related areas, which include policy studies and the history and philosophy of science.

Science

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the world's top academic journals. It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly. The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other matters of interest to scientists and others who are concerned with the wide implications of science and technology. 

Science Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

SciFinder - ABSTRACTS ONLY

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SciFinder, a resource from the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), is a curated database of chemical and bibliographic information that covers several scientific and biomedical fields, with an emphasis on chemistry.